hbotz
August 17, 2020, 1:50am
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people are people. you appear to be very bigoted against bigots. this might be a disadvantage for you, going forward. or it might not.
Lmao I see "Taibbi" and I know it's not worth reading.
big_ass
August 17, 2020, 1:56am
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Key Point
The Loss Of Humor
Many who marched against Dick Cheney’s spy state in the early 2000s lost interest once Donald Trump became a target, then became full converts to the possibilities of centralized speech control after Russiagate, Charlottesville, and the de-platforming of Alex Jones, with even the ACLU wobbling . (Some of the only left media figures to be consistent on this issue work at the World Socialist Web Site, which has gone after woke icons like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Internet censorship). Support for the “radical transparency” concept that made Wikileaks famous receded in favor of a referendum on the political and sexual iniquity of Julian Assange: many activists today are more concerned with who than what and find nuance, contradiction, and double-meaning repulsive. Bad person = bad idea!
If this sounds familiar, it’s because it was the exact profile of Bush-era conservatives, who were so famously impervious to irony that corporate America could not develop for them one functioning comedy concept. Just five years ago, the Atlantic ran one of many investigations into the issue, quoting University of Delaware professor Dannagal Young:
Stephen Colbert, for example, may say that he’s looking forward to the sunny weather that global warming will bring, and the audience members know this isn’t what he really means. But they have to wonder: Is he making fun of the kind of conservative who would say something so egregious? Or is he making fun of arrogant liberals who think that conservatives hold such extreme views?
As Young noticed, this is a kind of ambiguity that liberals tend to find more satisfying and culturally familiar than conservatives do… In contrast, conservative talk radio humor tends to rely less on irony than straightforward indignation and hyperbole.
On Racism
The National Museum of African American History and Culture created a graphic on “Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture” that declared the following white values: “the scientific method,” “rational, linear thinking,” “the nuclear family,” “children should have their own rooms,” “hard work is the key to success,” “be polite,” “written tradition,” and “self-reliance.” White food is “steak and potatoes; bland is best,” and in white justice, “intent counts.”
The astute observer will notice this graphic could equally have been written by white supremacist Richard Spencer or History of White People
Twisting The Knife
The outcry against the tests as “longstanding forces of institutional racism ” by the National Association of Basketball Coaches is particularly hilarious, given that the real problem most of those coaches are combating is the minimal fake academic entry requirement imposed by the NCAA to help maintain a crooked billion-dollar business scheme based on free (and largely Black) labor. The tests have been tweaked repeatedly over the years to be more minority-friendly and are one of the few tools that gave brilliant but underprivileged kids a way to blow past the sea of rich suburbanites who feel oppressed by them… But, fine, let’s stipulate, as Neon Bodeaux put it, that “them tests are culturally biased .” What to make of the campaign to end blind auditions for musical positions, which the New York Philharmonic began holding in the early seventies in response to complaints of discrimination?
Before blind auditions, women made up less than 6 percent of orchestras; today they’re half of the New York Philharmonic. But because the change did not achieve similar results with Black and Hispanic musicians, the blind audition must now be “altered to take into fuller account artists’ backgrounds and experiences .” This completes a decades-long circle where the left/liberal project went from working feverishly to expunge racial stereotypes in an effort to level the playing field, to denouncing itself for ever having done so.
This would be less absurd if the effort were not being led in an extraordinary number of cases by extravagantly-paid white consultants like DiAngelo and Howard Ross, a “social justice advocate” whose company billed the federal government $5 million since 2006 to teach basically the same course on “whiteness” to agencies like NASA, the Treasury, the FDIC, and others.
It’s unsurprising that in the mouths of such people, the definitions of “whiteness” sound suspiciously like lazy suburban white stereotypes about Black America, only in reverse. They read like a peer-reviewed version of Bill de Blasio’s infamous joke about “CP Time.”
Conclusion
Republicans were once despised because they were anti-intellectuals and hopeless neurotics. Trained to disbelieve in peaceful coexistence with the liberal enemy, the average Rush Limbaugh fan couldn’t make it through a dinner without interrogating you about your political inclinations.
If you tried to laugh it off, that didn’t work; if you tried to engage, what came back was a list of talking points. When all else failed and you offered what you thought would be an olive branch of blunt truth, i.e. “Honestly, I just don’t give that much of a shit,” that was the worst insult of all, because they thought you were being condescending. (You were, but that’s beside the point). The defining quality of this personality was the inability to let things go. Families broke apart over these situations. It was a serious and tragic thing.
Now that same inconsolable paranoiac comes at you with left politics, and isn’t content with ruining the odd holiday dinner, blind date, or shared cab. He or she does this infuriating interrogating at the office, in school, and in government agencies, in places where you can’t fake a headache and quietly leave the table.
The link, again
We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing
I recommend reading the full article - plenty was left out by my quotes
I can tell you exactly why you're human excrement: you don't give a fuck about injustice that doesn't affect you. It's not even that you're bullied into not doing anything: you willingly do so and advocate that those that do stand up and put their bodies and livelihood on the line should be arrested, even if what they're doing is the only way to correct the injustice. Because you don't give a fuck about anything that doesn't affect you. "Order over justice." You're sickening.
hbotz:
if activists actually do set things on fire since its the only play, it only makes sense to arrest activists and use the fbi to track their activities. and also since personally my life is good i also am not in a position to support setting things on fire since i am more devoted to order than to justice.
@sdadasdas don't buy into his bullshit of "I was saying I'd be a nazi because I'm scared to risk my life." That is not at all the reason he gave. He's just literal trash
big_ass:
The astute observer will notice this graphic could equally have been written by white supremacist Richard Spencer or History of White People
Yeah, and you've proven why he's a fucking joke.
big_ass
August 17, 2020, 1:58am
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Hbotz I recognize that your position on understanding fascism is thoughtful, nuanced, and intelligent even if all these guys are just going to shout you down and call you a Nazi for it
That's because you're a cryptofascist fuck
hbotz
August 17, 2020, 1:59am
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is a cryptofacist a facist but on the blockchain
big_ass
August 17, 2020, 1:59am
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Examining authoritarianism doesn't work for actual authoritarians - they are locked into a "Bad Guy Bad" thinking process and aren't here to understand & discuss, but to shout.
Good question. We know that the difference between humans and rocks is that the former is more efficient at converting energy from an external energy source (sun) in a heat bath (atmosphere/ocean) and then dissipate that energy as heat. If only we could formalize social behavior into a mathematical form we could simulate those behaviors and determine why. In any case, long-term successful lifeforms will continually restructure themselves more efficiently to capture energy and dissipate that energy as heat.
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Ah, yes, the authoritarian here is not the one who says "even if there is massive injustice and even if violent action is the only way to fix it, they should all be arrested by the FBI because order trumps justice and my life is just fine."
You're a sickening piece of shit.
big_ass
August 17, 2020, 2:01am
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Clearly you haven't read Neuromancer
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Your jokes are so fucking bad.
big_ass
August 17, 2020, 2:06am
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This is exactly what this thread needs. A return to rock-based ideology.
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Is God a lobster? Or did the conversation move on past that already?
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big_ass
August 17, 2020, 2:10am
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Lobsters are cryptofascist. Read Jordan Peterson
hbotz
August 17, 2020, 2:14am
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does that make cryptolobsters cryptocryptofacist?